Anything interesting happen on your birthday?

[Malconvoker]

So, its my birthday today and it is also when you can see the perseid meteor shower best.

So anyone else have cool stuff happen on your birthday? It can be a single event or an annual thing or just something you think is cool.

 

[A_Parked_Car]

Hmmm, well my birthday was August 9th. I can't remember anything interesting happening on that day while I have been alive. The atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945 I suppose, which is pretty depressing to think about.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

My birthdays miraculously coincide with me getting really drunk.

Other than that... Not really, at least nothing recently. Last year Helmet played where I live, and the year before Kyuss played. No one good this year, but hopefully next year there'll be someone great on again. I share a birthday with Black Francis, Zach Braff, Roy Mayorga and Billy Dee Williams, which is pretty cool.

Hmmm, well my birthday was August 9th. I can't remember anything interesting happening on that day while I have been alive. The atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945 I suppose, which is pretty depressing to think about.

I know that feel, my date of birth was the same day the Rwandan Genocide started.

 

[Anarchemitis]

My birthday is only three days after Valentines and 11 after my older brother's. It's been a very long time since I've tried to make it an event of major significance, or anyone else making it super special. I haven't cared to, nor made others think it should

That all said, I would love to have a huge birthday party with presents and such. Therefore, I ought to help others have huge awesome birthday parties.

 

[Able Seacat]

I was born on the 5[sup]th[/sup] of September which is the same birth date for this awesome guy;

Spoiler

EDIT: Oh and happy birthday OP

 

[Mr Fixit]

Hmm well happy birthday. Anyway Google was first launched on my birthday, September 27th by the way, that's kinda cool. As far as personal stuff I usually just try to go out & have a good time, which I might actually get to do this year. Hopefully I can convince my lady friend to join me this year, make it a really good night.

 

[Wickatricka]

My birthday is on Valentines day which is funny because I'm forever alone.. but I got ridiculously drunk the whole weekend of my birthday probably the most I've ever drank in one sitting. Wen't to the bar even though I was under aged and people just kept buying me drinks hah.

 

[twistedmic]

News broke, in America at least, that Osama Bin Laden was killed on my birthday.

 

[Eddie the head]

Well the day after my birthday I cam across a thread on the escapist that asked me if "Anything interesting happens on my birthday." Oh and that meteor shower thing.

 

[Kitsune Hunter]

Well first off, happy birthday OP, well a couple of interesting things happened on my birthday, since my is 27 January I was born the same day as Kaiser Wilhelm II and Mozart. It was also the day the siege of Leningrad ended and when Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz which also goes hand in hand with Holocaust memorial day

 

[mlow44]

I'm a July 4th baby, and also American. So I get fireworks and barbecues for about a week straight.


I just so happen to dislike both fireworks AND barbecues.

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

Well, my birthday fell on 10-10-10 a few years ago.

That's kinda neat, right?

 

[Roganwilson]

Happy birthday, OP. My birthday happens to fall on September 11, which probably needs no explanation.

 

[TakerFoxx]

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution kicked off.

And of marginally greater importance, on April 19, 1986, the world received its lord and savior.

 

[Hoplon]

4th October, Sputnik was launched.

 

[Ren3004]

Well, my birthday is the day Hitler killed himself. It's also the birthday of two actors on The Big Bang Theory.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Anything interesting happen on your birthday?

Yeah; Jon Lovitz celebrates his birthday.

 

[TK421]

Spoiler: Events

1462 ? Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.

1497 ? Battle of Deptford Bridge ? forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.

1565 ? Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

1579 ? Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.

1596 ? The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.

1631 ? Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years
building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.

1673 ? French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to
make a detailed account of its course.

1773 ? Cúcuta, Colombia, is discovered by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.

1775 ? American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker
Hill.

1789 ? In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.

1839 ? In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to
worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a
result.

1843 ? The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars,
takes place.

1861 ? Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.

1863 ? Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

1876 ? American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud ? 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George
Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

1877 ? American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon ? the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in
the Idaho Territory.

1885 ? The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

1898 ? The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.

1900 ? Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.

1901 ? The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.

1910 ? Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.

1930 ? U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.

1932 ? Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

1933 ? Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.

1939 ? Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison

1940 ? World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed; Britain's worst maritime disaster.

1940 ? World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.

1940 ? The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.

1944 ? Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.

1948 ? A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.

1953 ? East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.

1958 ? The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.

1958 ? The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada opens. It is still open today.

1960 ? The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.

1963 ? The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.

1963 ? A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.

1967 ? The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.

1971 ? President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.

1972 ? Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

1985 ? STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.

1987 ? With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.

1991 ? Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.

1992 ? A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).

1994 ? Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Spoiler: Births (excessively long)

1239 ? Edward I of England (d. 1307)

1268 ? Lord Borchard de Herle, English diplomat (d. 1305)

1603 ? Joseph of Cupertino, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1663)

1658 ? Diogo de Mendonca Corte-Real, Portuguese politician (d. 1736)

1682 ? Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)

1691 ? Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)

1693 ? Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)

1704 ? John Kay, English inventor, invented the Flying shuttle (d. 1780)

1714 ? Cesar-Francois Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1784)

1718 ? George Howard, English field marshal (d. 1796)

1808 ? Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian poet, playwright, and linguist (d. 1845)

1810 ? Ferdinand Freiligrath, German poet (d. 1876)

1811 ? Jon Sigurosson, Icelandic politician (d. 1879)

1818 ? Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)

1818 ? Sophie of Wurttemberg (d. 1877)

1832 ? William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)

1839 ? Arthur Tooth, English priest (d. 1931)

1858 ? Eben Sumner Draper, American politician, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)

1861 ? Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)

1861 ? Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940)

1863 ? Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1934)

1867 ? Flora Finch, English-American actress (d. 1940)

1867 ? John Robert Gregg, Irish-American educator, publisher, and humanitarian (d. 1948)

1867 ? Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)

1870 ? Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (d. 1945)

1871 ? James Weldon Johnson, American author, journalist, and activist (d. 1938)

1876 ? William Carr, American rower (d. 1942)

1880 ? Carl Van Vechten, American author and photographer (d. 1964)

1881 ? Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)

1882 ? Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)

1882 ? Igor Stravinsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1971)

1888 ? Heinz Guderian, German general (d. 1954)

1898 ? M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (d. 1972)

1898 ? Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)

1898 ? Harry Patch, English super-centenarian (d. 2009)

1900 ? Martin Bormann, German politician (d. 1945)

1902 ? Sammy Fain, American composer (d. 1989)

1902 ? Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)

1903 ? Ruth Graves Wakefield, American chef, created the chocolate chip cookie (d. 1977)

1904 ? Ralph Bellamy, American actor and singer (d. 1991)

1904 ? Patrice Tardif, Canadian politician (d. 1989)

1907 ? Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990)

1907 ? Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)

1909 ? Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)

1909 ? Ralph E. Winters, Canadian-American film editor (d. 2004)

1910 ? Red Foley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1968)

1910 ? George Hees, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1996)

1914 ? John Hersey, American journalist (d. 1993)

1915 ? David "Stringbean" Akeman, American singer and banjo player (d. 1973)

1915 ? Marcel Cadieux, Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (d. 1981)

1915 ? Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996)

1916 ? Terry Gilkyson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Easy Riders) (d. 1999)

1917 ? Dufferin Roblin, Canadian politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (d. 2010)

1918 ? Ajahn Chah, Thai educator (d. 1992)

1919 ? John Moffat, Scottish commander and pilot

1919 ? Beryl Reid, English actress (d. 1996)

1920 ? Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)

1920 ? Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress

1920 ? Francois Jacob, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

1923 ? Elroy Hirsch, American football player (d. 2004)

1923 ? Dale C. Thomson, Canadian historian and educator (d. 1999)

1927 ? Martin Bottcher, German composer and conductor

1927 ? Wally Wood, American autrhor, illustrator, and publisher (d. 1981)

1929 ? Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)

1930 ? Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)

1931 ? John Baldessari, American painter

1932 ? Peter Lupus, American bodybuilder and actor

1932 ? John Murtha, American colonel and politician (d. 2010)

1933 ? Harry Browne, American politician (d. 2006)

1933 ? Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)

1936 ? Vern Harper, Canadian tribal leader and activist

1936 ? Ken Loach, English director, producer, and screenwriter

1937 ? Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher

1940 ? George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1941 ? Nicholas C. Handy, English chemist (d. 2012)

1942 ? Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian politician, Vice President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate

1942 ? Roger Steffens, American actor and producer

1943 ? Newt Gingrich, American politician, 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

1943 ? Barry Manilow, American singer-songwriter and producer

1943 ? Burt Rutan, American engineer

1944 ? Randy Johnson, American football player (d. 2009)

1944 ? Bill Rafferty, American comedian and game show host (d. 2012)

1944 ? Chris Spedding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nucleus and Sharks)

1945 ? Frank Ashmore, American actor

1945 ? Art Bell, American radio host and author

1945 ? Tommy Franks, American general

1945 ? Ken Livingstone, English politician, 1st Mayor of London

1945 ? Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist

1946 ? Peter Rosei, Austrian author

1947 ? Christopher Allport, American actor (d. 2008)

1947 ? Linda Chavez, American author

1947 ? George S. Clinton, American songwriter

1947 ? Gregg Rolie, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Santana, Journey, and The Storm)

1947 ? Paul Young, English singer-songwriter (Sad Cafe and Mike + The Mechanics) (d. 2000)

1948 ? Dave Concepcion, Venezuelan baseball player

1948 ? Aurelio Lopez, Mexican baseball player (d. 1992)

1949 ? Snakefinger, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Residents and Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers) (d.
1987)

1950 ? Lee Tamahori, New Zealand director

1951 ? Starhawk, American author and activist

1951 ? John Garrett, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

1951 ? Paul McGuinness, German-Irish talent manager

1951 ? Joe Piscopo, American actor

1952 ? Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, manager, and coach

1955 ? Gail Jones, Australian author

1955 ? Bob Sauve, Canadian ice hockey player

1956 ? Iain Milne, Scottish rugby player

1957 ? Phil Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pogues and The Radiators From Space)

1957 ? Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (d. 2005)

1957 ? Jon Gries, American actor and producer

1957 ? Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor

1958 ? Jello Biafra, American singer-songwriter and producer (Dead Kennedys, The No WTO Combo, and Lard)

1958 ? Bobby Farrelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1958 ? Sam Hamad, Syrian-Canadian politician

1958 ? Jon Leibowitz, American politician

1958 ? Daniel McVicar, American actor

1958 ? Derek Lee Ragin, American tenor

1959 ? Nikos Stavropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach

1960 ? Adrian Campos, Spanish race car driver

1960 ? Thomas Haden Church, American actor

1961 ? Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese actor

1962 ? Michael Monroe, Finnish singer-songwriter and saxophonist (Hanoi Rocks and Demolition 23)

1963 ? Greg Kinnear, American actor and producer

1964 ? Rinaldo Capello, Italian race car driver

1964 ? Michael Grob, German swimmer

1964 ? Erin Murphy, American actress

1965 ? Kami Cotler, American actress and educator

1965 ? Dermontti Dawson, American football player

1965 ? Dan Jansen, American speed skater

1965 ? Dara O'Kearney, Irish runner and poker player

1966 ? Tory Burch, American fashion designer

1966 ? Christy Canyon, American porn actress

1966 ? Ken Clark, American football player (d. 2013)

1966 ? Mohammed Ghazy Al-Akhras, Iraqi journalist

1966 ? Jason Patric, American actor

1967 ? Eric Stefani, American keyboardist, songwriter, and animator (No Doubt)

1967 ? Dorothea Roschmann, German soprano

1968 ? Minoru Suzuki, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

1969 ? Paul Tergat, Kenyan runner

1970 ? Stephane Fiset, Canadian ice hockey player

1970 ? Will Forte, American actor and screenwriter

1970 ? Jason Hanson, American football player

1970 ? Popeye Jones, American basketball player

1970 ? Michael Showalter, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1970 ? Sasha Sokol, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress

1971 ? Mildred Fox, Irish politician

1971 ? Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer and actress

1973 ? Krayzie Bone, American rapper and producer (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)

1973 ? Christian Claudio, Puerto Rican martial artist and author

1973 ? Louis Leterrier, French director and producer

1973 ? Leander Paes, Indian tennis player

1974 ? Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer

1975 ? Jennifer Irwin, Canadian actress

1975 ? Chloe Jones, American porn actress (d. 2005)

1975 ? Joshua Leonard, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1976 ? Scott Adkins, English actor and stuntman

1976 ? Sven Nys, Belgian cyclist

1976 ? Keisuke Ogihara, Japanese rapper (Rip Slyme)

1977 ? Tjasa Jezernik, Slovenian tennis player

1977 ? Mark Tauscher, American football player

1977 ? Branko Tomovic, Serbian-German actor

1978 ? Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress

1978 ? Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer

1979 ? Young Maylay, American rapper, producer, and voice actor

1979 ? Nick Rimando, American soccer player

1980 ? Kimeru, Japanese singer and actor

1980 ? Jeph Jacques, American illustrator

1980 ? Venus Williams, American tennis player

1981 ? Kyle Boller, American football player

1981 ? Shane Watson, Australian cricketer

1982 ? Arthur Darvill, English actor

1982 ? Stanislava Hrozenska, Slovak tennis player

1982 ? Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian footballer

1982 ? Marek Svatos, Slovak ice hockey player

1983 ? Connie Fisher, Irish-Welsh actress and singer

1983 ? Vlasis Kazakis, Greek footballer

1983 ? Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Arashi)

1983 ? Lee Ryan, English singer-songwriter and actor (Blue)

1984 ? John Gallagher, Jr., American actor and singer

1985 ? Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player

1985 ? Rafael Sobis, Brazilian footballer

1986 ? Apoula Edel, Armenian footballer

1987 ? Kendrick Lamar, American rapper and songwriter (Black Hippy)

1987 ? Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer (Morning Musume Minimoni, and Morning Musume Otomegumi)

1988 ? Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player

1988 ? Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer

1988 ? Drew Ryan Scott, American singer-songwriter and producer (After Romeo)

1989 ? Giorgos Tofas, Cypriot footballer

1990 ? Jordan Henderson, English footballer

1990 ? Laura Wright, English singer (All Angels)

1991 ? Jang Min Chul, South Korean gamer

1992 - ME

1993 ? Anna Ruh, German discus thrower

Spoiler: Deaths

850 ? Tachibana no Kachiko, Japanese wire of Emperor Saga (b. 786)

900 ? Fulk, French archbishop

1025 ? Boleslaw I Chrobry, Polish king (b. 967)

1091 ? Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)

1463 ? Infanta Catherine of Portugal (b. 1436)

1565 ? Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)

1694 ? Philip Howard, English cardinal (b. 1629)

1696 ? John III Sobieski, Polish king (b. 1629)

1719 ? Joseph Addison, English poet and playwright (b. 1672)

1734 ? Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general (b. 1653)

1740 ? Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1687)

1762 ? Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet (b. 1674)

1771 ? Daskalogiannis, Ottoman rebel leader

1775 ? John Pitcairn, Scottish-English soldier (b. 1722)

1797 ? Mohammad Khan Qajar of Persia (b. 1742)

1813 ? Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1726)

1821 ? Martin Miguel de Güemes, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1785)

1839 ? Lord William Bentinck, English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (b. 1774)

1866 ? Joseph Mery French poet (b. 1798)

1898 ? Edward Burne-Jones, English painter (b. 1833)

1904 ? Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and politician (b. 1839)

1939 ? Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1893)

1940 ? Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

1941 ? Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1862)

1942 ? Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1853)

1952 ? John Whiteside Parsons, American scientist (b. 1914)

1954 ? Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (b. 1920)

1956 ? Paul Rostock, German surgeon (b. 1892)

1956 ? Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (b. 1926)

1957 ? Dorothy Richardson, English journalist and author (b. 1873)

1961 ? Jeff Chandler, American actor and singer (b. 1918)

1963 ? Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (b. 1882)

1968 ? Jose Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1901)

1969 ? Rita Abatzi, Turkish-Greek singer (b. 1914)

1974 ? Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)

1975 ? James Phinney Baxter III, American historian and academic (b. 1893)

1979 ? Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (b. 1888)

1981 ? Richard O'Connor, Indian-English general (b. 1889)

1981 ? Zerna Sharp, American author and educator (b. 1889)

1982 ? Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)

1983 ? Peter Mennin, American composer and educator (b. 1923)

1984 ? Milbourne Christopher, American magician (b. 1914)

1984 ? John Murray, American playwright (b. 1906)

1985 ? John Boulting, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913)

1986 ? Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)

1987 ? Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1936)

1996 ? Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (b. 1922)

1996 ? Curt Swan, American illustrator (b. 1920)

1999 ? Basil Hume, English cardinal (b. 1923)

2000 ? Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)

2001 ? Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)

2001 ? Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (b. 1925)

2002 ? Willie Davenport, American hurdler (b. 1943)

2002 ? Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)

2004 ? Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)

2005 ? Karl Mueller, American bass player (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)

2006 ? Bussunda, Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1962)

2006 ? Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)

2007 ? Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)

2007 ? Serena Wilson, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1933)

2008 ? Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (b. 1922)

2008 ? Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)

2009 ? Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (b. 1929)

2009 ? Darrell Powers, American sergeant (b. 1923)

2012 ? Stephane Brosse, French mountaineer (b. 1971)

2012 ? Patricia Brown, American baseball player (b. 1931)

2012 ? Chen Din Hwa, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)

2012 ? Nathan Divinsky, Canadian mathematician and chess player (b. 1925)

2012 ? Raivo Jarvi, Estonian politician (b. 1954)

2012 ? Brian Hibbard, Welsh actor and singer (The Flying Pickets) (b. 1946)

2012 ? Rodney King, American victim of police brutality (b. 1965)

2012 ? R. C. Owens, American football player (b. 1934)

2012 ? Fauzia Wahab, Pakistani politician (b. 1956)

2013 ? Michael Baigent, New Zealand author (b. 1948)

2013 ? Atiqul Haque Chowdhury, Bangladeshi playwright and producer (b. 1930)

2013 ? Pierre F. Cote, Canadian lawyer and civil servant (b. 1927)

2013 ? Bulbs Ehlers, American basketball player (b. 1923)

2013 ? Jim Goddard, English director and production designer (b. 1936)

2013 ? James Holshouser, American politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1934)

2013 ? Fuller Kimbrell, American politician (b. 1909)

2013 ? Jalil Shahnaz, Iranian tar player (b. 1921)

2013 ? Geoff Strong, English footballer (b. 1937)

Spoiler: Holidays

Bunker Hill Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts)
Christian Feast Day:
Albert Chmielowski
Botolph (England)
Samuel and Henrietta Barnett (Church of England)
Gondulphus of Berry
Herve
Hypatius of Bithynia (Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches)
Rainerius
June 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Day, celebrates the independence of Iceland from Kingdom of Denmark in 1944.
Soviet Occupation Day (Latvia)
West Germany, from 1954 to 1990, the Day of German Unity
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (International)
Zemla Intifada Day (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)

If you go to the Wikipedia article, you can get sources and such.

 

[MiskWisk]

28th of Feb. Nothing terribly big. I do get the honour of saying the Prestonsburg, Kentucky Bus disaster occurred in 1958 killing 26 kids and 1 bus driver making it the second worst bus disaster in US history but that's about it.

Oh, and the 228 massacre in Taiwan killing 30000 (roughly) and the discovery of the word "dord" as a mistake in a dictionary.